Didn't Charles Barkley have a big impact on the black vote for the Jones v. Moore race (or was that overblown by media)? What's he up to in this race? He's not supporting the Auburn coach, is he?
I think it's some doc in MN or somewhere up north who is relating those n of ones to the fact that people can and do get the flu each year by coronoviruses, therefore he concludes that ALL coronaviruses are known to NOT elicit sustained immunity. I think by now the medical field should stop believing shit about coronaviruses not named SARS-Cov-2 should apply to the latter. That's the myths begin and spread faster than the virus itself.
LOL, ISWYDT
But as a non-partisan, I would welcome such challenges in state races. Comfortable re-elections are an affront to accountability to the electorate.
Thanks for sharing this. The caveat here is "They have not been peer-reviewed or published in a medical journal." However, given quotes from study authors this does look like a randomized trial and I tend to agree with Scott Gottlieb's comments.
Triple, have you seen the entire publication of the Chatterjee (ICMR) study? I've only seen the abstract so I can't follow their data. They are describing it as a case-control design and the only randomized aspect is how cases were selected from a database. So it is not going to be a high enough level of evidence from which to draw much conclusion.
I've looked carefully at the Boulware study in NEJM. It's an RCT and the journal has made everything available: the protocol, the data, appendix with sub-analyses. It is one of the best designed Covid studies I've seen. It's unfortunate that there was no significant benefit on the primary outcome or any pre-specified subgroup analysis. I hope there is a way to tease out what characteristics of patients who benefited from HCQ (i.e., pharmacogenetics) so as to inform future study design and decision making.
Yeah, I don't think that's correct on authorship agreements. There is a requirement for the corresponding author to disclose whether they had full access to the data. In my experience, authors may have solely been involved in interpreting data and in many cases they may not have even been involved as a PI for a site. When I first skimmed the original publication, it seemed legit. When I saw The Guardian article, I came away with the impression that Surgisphere and its founder Desai were almost certainly illegitimate. You could argue that the authors should have figured that out, and I don't disagree, especially since nobody could extract from the database except Surgisphere. But I'm sure the authors were focused on analyzing, interpreting, and publishing the data quickly to get information out to everyone, good or bad. There needs to be some kind of task force to look at the handling of Covid-19 data dissemination and try to set up better standards for every entity involved in the process to see how to keep integrity intact while allowing the public quick access in dire circumstances.
Here's the link to the Lancet author form:
https://els-jbs-prod-cdn.jbs.elsevierhealth.com/pb/assets/raw/Lancet/authors/tl-author-signatures.pdf
Here's the Guardian link to the article from one week ago:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/29/covid-19-surgisphere-hydroxychloroquine-study-lancet-coronavirus-who-questioned-by-researchers-medical-professionals
Dude, are you in the mental health field? Seriously, that's a very educated breakdown and I like the post. I would mention that "much more efficient political transaction" is something that disturbs me in particular. Why is this still the case? Hell, numerous jail diversion programs have demonstrated cost savings. The Bexar County project was around 15 years ago, so the Great State of Texas should have implemented it and made it a conservative thing. I don't know if it's R vs D, or if it's something more like building more jail space takes care of "General Dynamics" or whatever. I just wish it would change. At least state Medicaid programs are figuring out that you can save $ by spending higher for long-acting injectable antipsychotics, which reduces the number of 7/11 scenarios you described.
Does anyone know of a way to have your Twitter account auto-block anyone with certain shit in their profile, like #WWG1WGA? Sorry, but checked my settings before and couldn't figure it out. I'm actually proud to admit I am only semi-literate in twittersphereshit.
It also reminded me of this from the Galveston paper:
“We haven’t noticed anything different other than having to stand in line at the restaurant,” said David McGinnis, who drove to Galveston from Belton, about five hours away, on Friday. His family’s trip to Galveston this weekend was a small makeup for a canceled April trip to Mexico.
“Personally, I feel if God’s going to call you home, he’s going to call you home here, at home or in Canada,” McGinnis said. “So it doesn’t matter. But, I mean, we’re not being stupid and shaking hands with everybody we meet.”
It's as if they are all listening to the same talk radio shows.